Servia And the Servians

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Servia And the Servians
Cedomilj Mijatovic
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The religious ceremony is then followed by a banquet or picnic, by dancing and singing.
The schools everywhere among the Servians have taken St. Sava as their special patron. The trade-guilds have from time immemorial had their patron saints, whose pictures are painted on the guilds' standards. Twenty years ago King Milan established the custom that every regiment of the regular army should have a saint 98 SERVIA AND THE SERVIANS as its special patron, on whose day the regiment receives guests
...and observes all the duties of a regular Svechar.
6. Christmas. — The Servians conduct their celebration of Christmas with so many rites and customs of unmistakably pagan origin that those folk-lorists are probably right who believe that these rites and customs are nothing else but the more or less modified worship of Dabog — the Sun- god — by their ancestors. The New Year of all Slavonic nations of the pagan period began to- wards the end of our December, or, as the Servians say, it began " in the days in which the sun, having gone far enough into the snowy plains of the win- ter, turns back, retracing its steps towards the green fields of the Summer." After twelve centuries of Christianity, the Servians keep up lovingly these remnants of their ancient faith.


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